Twitter/X removing the block feature

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, being able to deny communications to people makes no sense. What is harassment?

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• shashi154263@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yup. X makes no sense. Please delete it.

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• JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Brands block trolls all the time.

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  • Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s also called a spam filter, once upon a time. Twitter, even before musk, was spam heaven. It’s a shit site that is completely out of control. I wouldn’t run an email program/ site if it didn’t have a spam/ block feature. Same should be for the internet’s garbage dump, Twitter.

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• Jaysyn@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you're still using Twitter, not only are you part of the problem, you like the abuse.

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Who are these people giving hearts and likes for removing features? :)

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• ZILtoid1991@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If this happens, I'll be deleting my account. I don't care, that the few VTubers I was still engaging with are still there, and haven't jumped over Mastodon, Misskey, etc.

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• drdabbles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How else would a child of apartheid Africa get the apartheid message out to the world in 2023? Of course you have to disable the block feature.

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• Kinglink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  While removing it is stupid, I also think it’s a limited feature. I like many people in gaming culture is blocked by Jason Schreier (I didn’t even comment on his post, but he did a mass block based on who responded to another person’s post because that’s the type of person he is) He’s a relatively famous gaming journalist so when someone posts his messages I can’t see them, right?

  Well I can, I just open an incognito window, and I still get to see what ever he’s posting, because when you aren’t logged in you get to see everything.

  So in that way Block doesn’t really make a lot of sense. Limiting who can interact with you might needed, but limiting who can see what you post doesn’t really.

  There is still “Mute” which I use much more often to get rid of “Console war” crap, from my feed, but honestly I also just don’t use “X” Because in general I haven’t found it that useful, and feels like it’s always been a massive time waster. If Elon is making other people realize that now, I’d say he’s doing a great job in waking up people to the fact that it’s always been a pretty shitty social media.

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  • bilb@lem.monster ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think you have to be logged in to view a person’s feed now though.

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• thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Cool

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• Prethoryn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Imagine if Elon was playing a long con game and is actually trying to kill Twitter on purpose by disguising himself as the rest of the Republicans in support of them.

  Like this “10 dimensional chess” game is him actually just doing the most mundane and simple changes to kill the platform intentionally.

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can imagine it, buuut… Never attribute to malice (or intelligence) what can be explained by incompetence.

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• Borkingheck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He’s got a point. It’s kinda weird how I can just block every advert I see. But also super weird to not be able to block dingleberries either.

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• Jackthelad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I gave him the benefit of the doubt when he took over, but it’s clear that he’s completely mental.

  The original owners of Twitter were forever fixing what wasn’t broken, but this guy is acting like he’s got a new Stretch Armstrong toy and wants to see how far he can stretch it before it breaks.

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• Jeredin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think if Hex isn’t willing to deal with their “minority” of trolls/hateful users, then I think banning their server is justified. I don’t want to punish the majority(?) but I don’t know why we should have to deal with their toxic users when our servers wouldn’t allow those kinds of users.

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• Jerrimu2@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Twitter is gab 4, parler is 2, and truth is 3

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• HexesofVexes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This year’s module content on social media is going to be an absolute cracker.

  I don’t even need to write jokes into my classes, the man does it for me!

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• chemicalprophet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  🎶X gon’ take it from you!🎶

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• Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I agree. I always thought it was stupid that you could stop people from seeing what you post about them on a public forum.

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  • Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Have you ever been sexually harassed, non-stop for weeks or months?

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    • Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Have you ever muted someone? Posting shit about someone behind a block can also be considered harassment.

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